Final Scrum : Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War

1st editions dust jacket As New 8vo. xi + 186pp., b/w plates, appends., After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honours the ninety international rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two internationals killed respectively and France eight. Germany topped the list with nineteen.